NEW YORK – SmartAsset’s list of the nation’s best housing markets for growth and stability in 2020 named Midland as the top metro.
The report stated that in Midland there was a 0 percent chance of a 5 percent loss in home price a decade after it was purchased. Overall home price growth was 287.8 percent from 1995 to 2019, the fourth highest of all metros studied.
Four other Texas cities landed in the top ten. Austin-Round Rock was named second, with Odessa, Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, and Dallas-Plano-Irving following at eighth, ninth, and tenth, respectively.
Rounding out the top ten are No. 3 Boulder, Colo.; No. 4 San Francisco; No. 5 San Jose; No. 6 Fort Collins, Colo.; and No. 7 Bismarck, N.D.
Ten other Texas cities landed in the top 50. They are: No. 12 San Angelo; No. 13 San Antonio-New Braunfels; No. 15 College Station-Bryan; No. 16 Fort Worth-Arlington; No. 19 Waco; No. 29 Sherman-Denison; No. 30 Abilene; No. 39 Longview; No. 40 Tyler; and No. 48 Beaumont-Port Arthur.
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